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SCHOAM! for January 2024
Special Collections, Historical Organizations, Archives & Museums
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in short: News | Grants | Ideas | Events | Webinars | Jobs | |
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News from SCRLC
New Collection: New York Central College
In this collection of primary sources from Cortland County Historical Society, you can see the earnest principles but fiscal mismanagement of a revolutionary college that existed for just a decade in the 1850s, open to any students regardless of race or sex. This collection can be used to supplement McGraw Historical Society's New York Central College collection, which has photos and secondary sources.
New Collection: Southern Cayuga Yearbooks
This collection was one of our 2023-2024 digitization grants in which SCRLC was both funder and vendor. These yearbooks cover a rural area in Southern Cayuga County and notably include photos of migrant students (children of farm workers). It seems to me that these yearbooks have a higher than usual number of "in memoriam" dedications to classmates; maybe an anthropology student can pore over these yearbooks as a research project some day! Until then, this collection serves as a reference and time capsule for the communities of Genoa, King Ferry, Poplar Ridge, and Aurora.
New Collection: Daniel Hall Civil War Letter Collection
This collection from Alfred University Libraries has several hundred letters written by a local man who served in the Civil War. I added brief highlights for each letter in the Description field, searchable in addition to the transcriptions provided by the library. Browse through to see moments when Hall reflected on his unilateral decision to enlist (despite a poor performing farm at home for his wife to run while raising a handful of small children), his disgust at slavery but his unenlightened views of Black people generally, and his perspective of the war and the South over his three years of service. Hall lived until 1911, as you can see on his family tree, but his half-brother Charles died as a prisoner in Andersonville. This collection would do very well in a classroom, as would similar collections from Binghamton University.
New Collection: Hanford Mills Museum Collection
Hanford Mills Museum, also known as Kelso Mill, is a historic grist mill and sawmill in East Meredith in Delaware County. This collection of theirs shows the mill over the decades, besides views of the village and its denizens (like Darwin the Bull).
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Grants & Assistance
★★★ SCRLC Digitization Grants ★★★
Apply for up to $5,000 from us, your friendly neighborhood library council, for your digitization project. Our most common grant awards are for microfilmed newspapers to go on NYS Historic Newspapers or for us to digitize yearbook collections for NY Heritage - but we're open to new and different projects!
If you need a quote or have any questions, reach out to me at [email protected].
Society of American Archivists Awards
SAA offers twenty different awards for merit and need, so apply or nominate someone by February 28.
Community Partnership Grant
Apply for grants of up to $1,000 from the Foundation of Advancement in Conservation toward a conservation project. Sites may be historic houses, museums, or any organization that has a need for basic collections care, conservation consultation or simple preventive conservation such as re-housing collections. The deadline is February 15, and will come up again in September.
Conservation Preservation Discretionary Grants
Non-profits have to get prequalification status, which may take a few weeks. The deadline for these grants is January 31. Apply for $2,500 to $45,000 toward preserving library and archival materials.
DHPSNY Spring 2024 Planning & Assessment Grants
Get professional help from DHPSNY. This round of grants is due by March 8.
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Ideas & Inspiration
Happy Public Domain Day!
On January 1, 2024, copyrighted works from 1928 entered the public domain where they will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon.
This year is especially notable because Mickey Mouse first appeared in 1928's Steamboat Willie. Besides that iteration of Mickey Mouse, other works to fall into the public domain include Millions of Cats by Wanda Gág (pictured right), Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque and others, which you can see here.
Archives Leadership Institute @Virginia
Applications for this week-long NHPRC-sponsored program are due on January 12. The $500 cost includes room, board and travel to Charlottesville, VA, in June. They're looking for archives leaders with 5-15 years of experience and a commitment to being "an agent of transformation."
Advocacy Day is February 7
Love your library? Then make sure to drop in on one or more of the Zoom calls with your local legislators on February 7. These appointments are scheduled across the state by NYLA, library councils, and library systems like FLLS, 4CLS and STLS. Your participation may just entail listening during a 15-minute meeting, but that show of support adds up and can influence budget decisions.
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Happening in the Neighborhood
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New Year, Familiar Faces in Chemung
Erin Doane has returned to Chemung County Historical Society after a two-year sabbatical. Many of CCHS's great posts over the last decade were authored by Erin. If you take a look at that blog, you'll see the most recent post by archivist Rachel Dworkin: a year in review. We see lots of posts like this from the organization's perspective, but it's also nice to see a summary of a single staff member's year of work.
Digital Memories in Auburn
Seymour Library has unveiled their new Digital Memories Lab, a free DIY space where patrons can transfer VHS, negatives, slides, Super 8 film, photographs, and documents. While you're reading the page about the new Digital Memories Lab or their other Local History resources, please appreciate their new website, funded by an IMLS grant and featuring a cool accessibility widget in the lefthand corner!
A Facelift in Caroline
The Town of Caroline recently received a rehabilitation grant for their Old Caroline Town Hall, the second floor of which is taken up by the Town Historian and archives. The Town Board worked with Susan Holland of Historic Ithaca to perfect the grant application.
Research Scholars Program in Binghamton
BU libraries has launched a program for ambitious students to work on a guided research project within the Libraries, mentored by library faculty. The resulting research will get published in the Open Repository at Binghamton and the student will earn themselves $2,000. We can't wait to see the results!
Give for Greatness Grant in Allegany
Congratulations to Allegany County Historical Society for receiving a $2,000 grant from Arts Services, Inc.! ACHS will use it toward maintaining their website, which has been a decades-long labor of love by ACHS Executive Director Ron Taylor and a repository for loads of local historical and reference material.
Restoration in Seneca Falls
The Seneca Falls Historical Society is working on a ceiling restoration project and they just had a neat post to keep their Facebook followers engaged, tying together the history of their Becker Mansion with the basic building materials taken apart. When was the last time you looked at the other side of your ceiling tiles? Maybe they were from the Beaver Board Company, too!
Calling All Canal Buffs
The Canal Society of NYS is looking for board members, so if you're interested in a term beginning in April, send David Kinyon an email by January 12. You'll also want to mark your calendar for the first of Schuyler County Historical Society's 2024 Talk Series, January 14 at 2 pm, when Schuyler County Historian Gary Emerson will talk about the Erie Canal.
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Zooms & Webinars Up Your Alley
SUNY Office of Library and Information Services Library Leadership and Management Certificate:
Introduction to Project Management for Libraries - January 9 to February 19
Developing Library Partnerships - January 9 to February 19
Fostering Access, Rights, and Equity (FARE) for Women Workers in NYS
Tuesday, January 9 at 10 am
MLA Webinar: Assess Your Library’s Services to Show Its Value and Make Decisions
Wednesday, January 10 at 2 pm
Activist Archives and Frameworks of Care
Thursday, January 11 at 12 pm
Digital Equity Roundtable Featuring Cory Doctorow
Friday, January 12 at 3 pm
2024 Eclipse Programs for Your Library!
Tuesday, January 16 at 2 pm
Digitization Best Practices and Metadata Basics
Wednesday, January 17 at 1 pm
Choosing Your Words in APA Style: Best Practices for Clear, Precise, and Inclusive Writing
Thursday, January 18 at 3 pm
Symbiosis with the Research Office: The Library’s Role in Capturing, Tracking, and Understanding Research Impact
Tuesday, January 23 at 1 pm
MLA Webinar: Streamline Your Design to Create LibGuides Your Users Will Actually Use!
Tuesday, January 23 at 2 pm
Inclusive Metadata
Wednesday, January 24 at 10 am
An Introduction to the Kennedy Center Archives
Wednesday, January 24 at 2 pm
Leading Transformative Change – Making a Better Organization
Wednesday, January 24 at 3 pm
Ethical & Productive: Considering Generative Artificial Intelligence Citation Across Learning & Research
Thursday, January 25 at 2 pm
Recent Developments in Labor & Employment Law
Friday, January 26 at 10 am
Etched in Stone: Lessons from Recipes Found on Gravestones
Monday, January 29 at 2 pm
Copy Bytes: Digitization and Libraries Part I
Tuesday, January 30 at 4 pm
Preparing for the Shadow: What you need to know about the 2024 Eclipse
Wednesday, January 31 at 1:30 pm
An Introduction to NYS Field Guide and Indigenous History is New York’s History
Thursday, February 1 at 2 pm
SUNYLA Midwinter Online Conference: Library Data Part II
Friday, February 2 from 10 am to 4 pm
Mold in Textile Collections: A Conservator's Perspective
Monday, February 5 at 1:30 pm
Introduction to OpenRefine
Wednesday, February 7 at 1 pm
In Person Events
Computers in Libraries Conference
March 12-14, 2024 | Arlington, VA
Discount Code: 24ESLN
Museum Association of NY Conference
April 6- 9, 2024 | Albany, NY
Recordings
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That's all for this month! Send me an email if there's anything at your organization you'd like me to include in the next newsletter: [email protected] | Claire Lovell, Digital Services Librarian | | | | |
